Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Robson, I think most of my questions are going to come to you.
I worked for the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority. We did an awful lot of planning and visioning. There's an economics principle: If there's a limited supply of something, and a suppressed cost for it, you end up with rationing. When it comes to roadways, the rationing takes the form of congestion. While we look at the concept of a mid-peninsula highway, experience would show that in no time it's going to be filled with general-purpose traffic. The question then becomes, what kind of policy issues or mechanisms, in addition to the technological ones, could be used to ensure that higher-value traffic gets priority?
Should we be thinking about road pricing and all the rest, demand management in a larger envelope that has an awful lot more things going on in the peninsula and right up to the GTA than just the movement of goods and services? You have people being displaced because of high housing costs in Toronto, so they're moving farther out and they want to commute. It's a real mixed bag of things going on, but the pattern is that if you build it, boy, they will come in spades, unless you manage it. What are your thoughts on that in the context of this region?